Updated residence hall guest policy allows visits without signing in
Gone are the days of the dreaded, rigorous walks down to the entrance of your residence hall to sign in a guest. Well, sort of. VCU’s new guest policy allows any tenant of a VCU residence hall to enter another hall as a guest during the period in which the host is checked in to […]
New GRC opens allowing more freshmen to experience the suite life
VCU finished its newest addition to residential housing over the summer: the updated Gladding Residence Center. The first set of freshman residents — about a third of the total 1,518-student capacity — moved into the double traditional and semi-suite room style dormitory commonly known as GRC on Aug. 12. The early move-in came as a […]
Monroe Park campus welcomes its largest freshman class ever, again
On Saturday, parents and students lined up with suitcases and makeshift carts outside the doors of the five freshman residence halls — Johnson, Rhoads, Brandt, the Honors College, and Gladding Residence Center — prior to beginning the unpacking awaiting them beyond the elevator line. Reuban Rodriguez — the associate vice provost and dean of student […]
GRC renovations will displace more than 1,000 students
Fadel Allassan Print News Editor Junior Lorin Simpson said she had to scramble to find a roof to put over her head next year; her roommate, junior Jasmyn Howard, said she’s in a similar situation. Both students have been living in on-campus residence halls since their freshman year, but were denied the chance to do […]
$100 million ResLife renovations begin this fall
Gladding Residence Center I and II, two student housing facilities used mostly by freshman, will close for construction in the fall and are expected to reopen in 2018. Curtis Erwin, Executive Director of Residential Life and Housing said the main goals of the master plan are to address the quality of GRC I and II […]